Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts (@320)

Last year it was the Vampire Weekend (read here for the relevant post) that reached the no1 of the US album chart, this year it's the Decemberists. When a group that I like of the so-called indie finally finds its way to bigger audiences without selling out, I always feel it as a small victory. Moreover, I notice many such small victories during the last weeks. Mumford & Sons entered the top10 and remain there from Jan, 15 (!), the Cake (!) were no1 before the Decemberists and Amos Lee (!) after them, while Iron and Wine (!!) is at no2 this week. The cherry on the cake was of course the Social Distortion's (!!!) first top 10 ever; it's for sure that Mike Ness would never expect this after almost three decades from his group's first release. Unfortunately though a fact that cannot be overlooked is that the album sales show a constant decline (check here for some very interesting figures).
In order to celebrate this fantastic array of albums at the top 10 of the US album chart, I upload the Decemberists' brilliant first album from 2002.

review link: here

download link: here (link removed due to a relevant request :-((